I wish The Green Knight had as digital release as well.  I know that is sinful in a lot of peoples minds but I’d pay $30 to watch it at home this weekend.  I am still not going into a theater, even vaccinated, because the rest of the country sucks ass

What nobody talks about though is how genuinely good Rick and Morty’s action scenes are. Are people just watching for the jokes, and not actually looking at the screen?

if you’re going to get all political, How can Rick have pulled this ruse more than three times in the past? the president can only serve two terms and is in his first ( the whole i need 1/10th to get re-elected)

so why doesn’t the president just refuse to pardon a turkey this year?

is it something Rick has done to past…

Also: did I miss it or did James Ellroy come out with a new novel recently?

the new Becky Chambers was such a delight. 

I actually really enjoyed this episode until around halfway through. The National Treasure parody is really not a big deal IMO - the show leaned on it for about ten seconds before it turned into something else. But I LOVED the sheer ridiculousness of Rick’s turkey-pardon plan - it’s funny concept on its own, but it…

Spider FDR and “We tried to think, “What walks the most?” made me pause the show and laugh for three or four minutes.

I remember reading Cecily Strong’s essay in NYMag last year during quarantine. What a heartbreaker. Just pre-ordered her book so I can feel gutted again in mid-August. Yay. 

Megan Abbott is great: I’ve read a few of her books and specifically her “Hard Case” books and she’s like a female Jim Thompson. And that’s a very high recommendation.

Congratulations to The Turnout, winner of the 2021 Most Generic Cover award!

“I swear, as God as my witness....”

Plus Becky Chambers has a new book out! Picking it up at the library today just in time for vacation.

I don’t know if I can describe what I mean by this, but this episode felt like a South Park episode.

Hey, M. Night Shaym-Aliens! was great.

Yeah but even when it’s dumb (which is a lot of the time), it was in Seasons 1-3 often very clever and funny. That’s not really the case anymore. Seems like all they have now are C-tier film parodies.

The President’s life flashing before his eyes as a series of Playstation launch announcements was pretty funny.

I think you might be romanticizing the other seasons of Rick and Morty a bit. Sometimes Rick and Morty is crazy with a point, and sometimes it’s just crazy. (I’ve noticed it’s often when President Curtis gets involved.) Where was the deeper, underlying meaning in Lawnmower Dog, or Get Schwifty? The show likes to…

So... Is this the show now?

That letter is a million percent fake.

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novelization doesn’t have a bunch of color pictures from the movie in the middle like novelizations used to back in the day. Zero stars.